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Armchair Travel August 2017
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The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life
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Where I Live Now : A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
by Sharon Butala
When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled the ranchlands of southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes of books, clothes, and keepsakes. But a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory--of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family. Reinventing herself in an urban landscape was painful, and facing her new life as a widow tested her very being. Yet out of this hard-won new existence comes an astonishingly frank, compassionate and moving memoir that offers not only solace and hope but inspiration to those who endure profound loss. Often called one of this country's true visionaries, Sharon Butala shares her insights into the grieving process and reveals the small triumphs and funny moments that kept her going. Where I Live Now is profound in its understanding of the many homes women must build for themselves in a lifetime.
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Hard Road : Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
by Peter Edwards
The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life. You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history.
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I, Who Did Not Die: A Sweeping Story of Loss, Redemption and Fate
by Zahed Haftling
Summary Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982--It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life. This is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching, essential, and astonishing. It's a war story. A love story. A page-turner of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly, it is a story that must be told, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless, barbaric wars.
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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's...
by John Marshall
Maine TV producer John Marshall and his yoga-instructor wife had always wanted to travel around the world with their kids. With time running out (their son was 17 and their daughter 14), they figured out how they could afford it: voluntourism! Traveling to multiple countries in six months, the Marshalls spent time at a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica, at several organic farms in New Zealand, at schools in rural Thailand and the Himalayas, and at an orphanage in India. As an added bonus, Marshall briefly explores the family's reentry to regular life. Richly detailed and inspirational, Wide-Open World tallies up the spider monkey bites, depicts the family's experiences, and ends with a reconnected family.
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Sixty Degrees North : Around the World in Search of Home
by Malachy Tallack
A man explores the 60th parallel, traveling both east and west of his home in Shetland, describing the landscapes, communities and wilderness he encounters along the way through Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska.
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